How Should We Understand the Core Mass Function? A memo of the CMF2IMF conference at ESO Garching
Published in CMF2IMF Conference Memo, arXiv:2607.09858, 2026
Motivated by the CMF2IMF conference at ESO Garching, this memo reviews the historical connection between the core mass function and stellar initial mass function. It compiles observational core catalogs across environments and evolutionary stages into a common framework and discusses how fitting choices affect the inferred high-mass slope. The full memo is available on arXiv.
Recommended citation: Xu, F., Galvan-Madrid, R., Morii, K., Nony, T., Palau, A., Traficante, A., & Nucara, A. (2026). "How Should We Understand the Core Mass Function? A memo of the CMF2IMF conference at ESO Garching." arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2607.09858.
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